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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Just after the deals I get while thrifting, I love auctions best. I especially love the auctions where hardly anyone shows up and I buy a bunch of stuff for not very much money.

We've been to this auction company a couple of times. I bought these tables there a couple of months ago. I wasn't even going to go then I looked at the auction preview photos. Needless to say I saw some things that interested me.

Tables from the auction a couple of months ago.

So I invite you to come inside and see what was available that night. I didn't buy all of this stuff, but in a couple of days I'll show you what I did get.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

From Dave's MidCentury Stuff Headquarters in Southwest Florida we bring you a SPECIAL BULLETIN.

Tuesday is usually Collector's Corner day. And Friday is usually Let's
Identify, but I found something yesterday so unique, so interesting, so evil
looking that I have to put it out today to see if any of you have ever seen
these. I think I want them, but I don't know why.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

It's Sunday, and I don't work too hard on Sunday. However, a day or so after the Ceramic Dish post ran we found ourselves in possession of a couple more ceramic dishes. One looks to be Atlantic Mold pottery, and the other is extra heavy in the kitsch department.

Friday, February 24, 2012

I've been seeing these on ebay for a few years now. I thought I needed one, but the prices seemed a little high to me. By the time you figure in shipping, or driving to pick it up and the cost of the chair-lounge it was just a bit outside of my budget.

But a week or two ago the MidCentury Stuff Force was with me. I saw this baby on ebay and its location was just a few miles from me. It had a Make Offer tab on it so I made an offer, it was accepted, and POOF! contour chair-lounge at my house.

It was my second purchase from this ebay seller. I bought a pair of pod chairs from him about a year ago that are still in the stack of things to be recovered.

Monday, February 20, 2012

I'm not sure why it is, but somewhere along the line I unknowingly became a collector of old lamps. Oh sure, it started off unknowingly, but after a while I started knowingly seeking out older lamps. Then I learned some advanced search features on C's List and started scouring the entire state of Florida for old lamps. It's out of control, but I'll run out of money someday and then it'll come to an end.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Sometimes I'll buy something I've never seen before just to find out how how it's made. When I saw these danish modern style lamp shades I had to have them because I'd never seen two layer shades. It seemed interesting and I wondered if I could reproduce them.

Friday, February 17, 2012

If it's Friday it must be time to look at some more of Dave's stuff and tell him what he has. It's a Friday thing. And today it's a Joe Friday thing.

My most popular post so far is the one about the Sears, Roebuck & Co. tulip chairs and tables I discovered by accident. Seems a lot of people like this stuff. So come on in and read about what I found at a no-name thrift store in Cape Coral, FL. Dragnet style.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

I've gotten my share of good deals when out looking for them. I have my favorite locations. And then there are the places that I'll go knowing that everything is going to be overpriced. But you go anyway, hoping against hope that there might be a deal this time.

Monday, February 13, 2012

I can not imagine any cooler lifestyle than being filthy rich and living in Palm Springs in the late 50s early 60s. Nothing. There is not a thing cooler. Not even Beverly Hills, with its "swimmin' pools" and "movie stars" can top living out in the desert with Frank, Dina Shore, Bing & Bob, Liberace, etc.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Last Friday I started what will become a regular Friday feature. I called it - Let's Identify: Fill In The Blank. Last week I had a couple of blonde wood end tables that I believe came from the early 50s. So following my own lead from last Friday, let's have another look at an end table. This one:

Thursday, February 9, 2012

So
I'm out thrifting and decide to check out some places that I'd not been
to before. I found out there was a Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Fort
Myers (the Ft Myers in FL, which is pretty close to where I live) so I
stopped in. Having never been to a ReStore before I went in
with no expectations but came out with this:

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Full Disclosure: I'm only a medium sized fan of Saarien Tulip style stuff.

But I know a lot of you guys love it. Heck, Roger Sterling has his new office decorated with some of it. I also know that some of you get that icky feeling when someone says Ikea. So imagine my surprise when I found that some Saarien reproductions were being sold by . . .

Friday, February 3, 2012

There were thousands of companies making things in the mid century era some of whom have come and gone leaving behind only highly desirable artifacts about which no information exists. How's that for a run on sentence?